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Review-Gating Bias Simulator (2D)

Interactive 2D simulation of in-app 'smart' rating prompts: watch simulated users fall through a satisfaction gate that routes them to a public store rating or a private feedback form, and see live how gating skews the public score away from the true population mean.

Computer Science2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryComputer Science

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders set the population's mean satisfaction, its spread, and the rating-prompt gate threshold, a toggle button switches gating on/off to compare biased vs. unbiased routing, a reset button clears the running counters, and the canvas view supports drag-to-pan and scroll-to-zoom.

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Many mobile apps use a "smart" in-app rating dialog that privately asks users whether they're enjoying the app before deciding what to do next: happy users get routed to the public app-store rating, unhappy users get quietly diverted to a private feedback form. This 2D simulator streams a population of users, each with a hidden satisfaction score drawn from a normal distribution, down through exactly that gate in real time. Watch the true distribution split into a green stream (public store) and a red stream (private feedback), and compare the live public rating against the true population mean — with gating on, the public number climbs well above reality, exactly the pattern Apple's App Store guidelines call out and forbid.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D canvas simulation of the 'smart' in-app rating prompt: simulated users with a hidden satisfaction score fall through a gate threshold that routes them either to the public app-store rating or a private feedback form, showing live how this review-gating pattern skews the public score above the true population mean.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install